Monatsarchive: Oktober 2015

It appears that Scandinavian Airlines currently operates the last Boeing 717 revenue flight operated by Blue1 this evening. Flight SK1768 departed Prague for Stockholm and the arrival could mean the official end of Boeing 717 revenue-services at SAS/Blue1.

There were reports in July 2015 that Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT) decided to lease a single Boeing 737-800 for delivery in late spring of 2016. Additional articles now report that FAT aims to take 20 Boeing 737-800s to replace their eight-strong MD-82/-83-fleet. Most sources claim that the MD-80s will be replaced „from 2020“ onwards. This could mean that the first Boeing 737s will be used to expand their network and that these aircraft will augment the schedules currently done by MD-80s prior to the planned retirement of the Douglas-jetliners.

Updates on this developing story suggest that the MD-80-fleet will be retired by 2020 and not from 2020 onwards as earlier stated.

Iranian company Taftan Air is due to take delivery of at least one McDonnell Douglas MD-83. I don´t have additional information about this Fokker 50-operator and my plan is to use the upcoming weekend for more research and to upload a page for Taftan Air on MD-80.com.